Mentally ill man who stabbed air passenger gets suspended term

A MAN who stabbed a passenger in an unprovoked attack at Dublin Airport in a “cry for help" has been given a suspended sentence on strict conditions.

- BY EIMEAR DODD

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Kasonga Mbuyi, 52, stabbed a German man. He was seen behaving erratically before the attack and was not wearing shoes.

Mbuyi, with an address at Clare Street, Limerick, was suffering from a paranoid delusion at the time and has since been diagnosed with schizophrenia with previous cannabis misuse. He told gardai he carried out the unprovoked and random assault as a “cry for help".